A CIO.com article in February quoted Benjamin Gray, an . "Through our customer interviews," writes Gray, "we've consistently heard about faster startup and shutdown times, the more reliable sleep mode and overall stability of the OS, faster access to data and applications through improved search, and a superior mobile and branch office connectivity experience."

In March, InformationWeek printed from Microsoft CFO Peter Klein. "Heading into 2010 and 2011, we're starting to see incredible interest from our enterprise customers to start deployments of Windows 7. The interest has been very high, and we're now having conversations with the majority of our enterprise customers who are making plans to deploy Windows 7," said Klein.

Internet Explorer 9

On the Web browser front, Internet Explorer 8 has been doing quite well, and continues to lead all Web browsers and . But, Microsoft is also hard at work on the next generation Web browser, and Internet Explorer 9 seems to be more than a simple cosmetic or incremental update to its predecessor.

Here is an quoting a Microsoft executive on IE9. "The web browsers of the day weren't taking advantage of the power of the hardware, really only about 10 percent, skimming the surface of the power of a PC," Tami Reller, corporate vice president of Windows, told BBC News. "We wanted to make sure we're using 100 percent of the PC to bring the best experience possible."